I use EnterYourHours.com for both my own business, and as a contractor for another company using EnterYourHours.com for their hourly tracking solution. We’ll call that other company, TheBiz.
TheBiz hires me to do one-off projects for their customers, so my hours need to show up on their invoices to clients. To keep records and hourly billing organized, we decided it would be best for me to enter the hours at TheBiz.enteryourhours.com over my own account mycompany.enteryourhours.com. This lets TheBiz create invoices with my hours on them without me having to invoice the hours from my system and pass them onto TheBiz. This saves at least one step in between.
While the work being completed is being entered at, thebiz.enteryourhours.com, my running weekly hour totals on mycompany.enteryourhours.com are inaccurate. It’s something I have to be mindful of when I am checking to see how many billable hours I’ve logged between theBiz and ZapataData.
The advantages are in favor of TheBiz. TheBiz can adjust my hours before invoicing if needed, choose not to bill for certain items and track his hourly totals by contractor (me).
As a user of both sides of the system, I find it easy to see how much work I’ve done for theBiz, while still being able to see what my own business is doing without TheBiz in the mix. Sure I could track hours in both places, but there’s no need to since I will never create an invoice for TheBiz and tracking the hours in my system will throw off running totals on the billing screen during invoice time.
